Pradhan shared a fake quote conjured by fake news and right-wing propaganda site Postcard News. Several fact-checkers have routinely pulled up Postcard News for peddling fake news in the past. BOOM has also called out Pradhan in the past for sharing a video with misleading context. (Read the factcheck here)

Swara Bhasker, who has received much online hate for her open letter to Padmaavat director Sanjay Leela Bhansali, called out a tweet by Mahesh Vikram Hegde, one of the founders of Postcard News, for sharing a fake quote.

“Then in the climax, breathtakingly shot of course – hundreds of women bedecked in red like Goddess Durga as bride rushed into the Jauhar fire while a raving Muslim psychopathic villain loomed over them and a pulsating musical track – that had the power of an anthem; seduced the audience into being awestruck and admiring of this act. Sir, if this is not glorification and support of Sati and Jauhar, I really do not know what is.

I felt very uncomfortable watching your climax, watching that pregnant woman and little girl walk into the fire. I felt my existence was illegitimate because God forbid anything untoward happened to me, I would do everything in my power to sneak out of that fiery pit– even if that meant being enslaved to a monster like Khilji forever. I felt in that moment that it was wrong of me to choose life over death. It was wrong to have the desire to live. This Sir, is the power of cinema.”